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ALGOVERNOBULGARO
EVIING LEMEE-PHlLABELtelA, FBIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1916
Re Cotantino, Premuto dalla
Itivoluzlonc, Ha Dcclso di
JUIchiarare Guerra alia
Bulgaria
VENIZELOS ALLA NAZIONE
IIOMA. 2ft Beptembre.
Telegrammt da Atene dlcono che II re
CoaUntlno ha flnalmente declso dl dlchl
arare la guerra alia Bulgaria, lannun
elo Ufllclale dl questa decision non e' stato
dato per II fatto che 1 dettagll non Bono
wtoora tatl fiseatl. Sembra che un ulti
matum aara' Iramedlatamente Invlato al
governo bulfaro per chledere I'lmmedlata
vacuailone dalla parte della Macedonia
rreca occupata dalle fonte buleare, mentre
verra' Inlilata la mobllltaslone dell' esorclto
vrepo, II re dlscusae lerl mattlna II pro
blema della mobllltaitone. che data la pre
rente dlsorcanlzslone dell 'eserclto greco,
non e' punto facile, con II capo dello Stato
Maggloro, generals Mosohopulos e con II
generals Qanakltsas. lerl sera si dlceva
eraera probablle che II re prealeda egll atesso
un conslgllo della corona oggl.
lerl sera correvano anche vocl secondo
eul la mobllltaslone Kenerale era gla stata
ardlnata, ma la notltla era prematura. In
un conslgllo dl mlnlatrl convocato d'urgensa
lerl mattlna It presidents del Conslgllo.
Kaloreropulos. dlchlaro' che II governo
tava conalderando serlamente la altuazlone
che alia Bulgaria sartbbo probabllmente
atata Invlata una nota dl tal genere che la
mobllltaitone dell'eserclto sarebbe segulta
lremedlatamente. Intanto la defezlone del
Vammlragllo Condurlotls, che segue Venl
gelos, e dl alcune untta' della marina da
guerra greca che al aono unite alle squad re
alleate, hanno completamente dLsorganti
sato la flotta.
ti'ex prealdente del conallglo greco Venl
seloa ha formato un governo provvlsorlo In
Creta lnaleme con rammlragllo Condurtotla.
I due loaders sono statl rlcevutl entusl
astlcamente a La Canea dove ha sede II
nuovo governo. Ven'.zeloa ha lanclato un
proclama nel quale paragona la Grecla dl
oggl a quella del pe.riodo 1912-13 e dice
che la polltlca poraonale del re che e' stato
rnalamente conalgllato ha dato per rlsultato
un rlawlclnnmento della Grecla al auol
Hemic! eredltarll, la vlolazlone della costl
tuzlone, 1'anarchla Interna ed II dlaprezzo
da parts degll nlleatl che conslderano la
Grecla coma nemlca perche" ha rlflutato al
1 terbl le facllltasionl accordate al bulgarl.
Venlzeloa dlco oggl non e' II momento
dl atablllre le responsablllta' e che 11 dovere
dl ognl greco e' quello dl salvare do' che
ancora al puo' salvare rltornando alia poll
tlca dettata dalla coaclenza nazlonale. Se
II re al meltera' alia testa del movlmento
nazlonale, tanto megllo; altrlmentl, dice
Venlzelos, "sara nostra dovere fare quello
che e' necessarlo per salvare 11 paese dalla
rovlna."
AEIIOPLANI ABBATTUTI
Un telegramma da Zurlgo dice che a
Vienna e' stato pubbllcato II seguente com-
tnunlcato ufflclale:
Nella mattlna del 26 correnta cinque
aeroplanl nemtel (Itallanl) lasclarono
cadere numeroaa bombe au Durazzo
senza fare alcun danno degno dl nota.
Bus del nostrl aeroplanl al Innalzarono
Immedtatamente per dare battaglla al
nemlco e poco dopo un ldroaeroplano
nemloo era forzato a dlacendere Bui
mare dove fu salvato da un cacclator
pedlnlere Itallano. Un altro vellvolo
nemlco fu coatretto a dlacendere a circa
40 mlglla dalla coita ed ebbe l'ufflclale
osservatore ucclso ed 11 pllota ferlto
gravemente.
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HEAVY GUNS HEROES OF BATTLE
THAT GAVE COMBLES TO ALLIES
Great Soulless Monsters Played Star Role in Thrilling
Drama Aeroplanes Swooped Down on Positions
Ltye Vultures, While Men Fought Like
Beasts for Possession of Village
By HENRY WOOD
WITH THE FIIENCH ARMIES NEAR
COMBI.ES, flept. 29.
Horses, lashed Into a furious gallop by
mad riders, dashing forward over a sunken
road with huje quantities of ammunition;
aeroplanes, hovering above vulture-like,
awaiting the fall of Combles; men, sweat
ing, righting their way forward over shell
pocked roads In terrible shell-Are.
Theso were aome of the dramatic scenes
that preceded the capture of the strongly
fortified village that had blocked the Allied
advance north of the Somme.
The eventful capture of Combles became
n certainty on Tuesday morning, when
French cavalry patrols, advancing north
eastward, and English cavalry patrols,
thrusting southeastward, met east of Com
bles. They thus completely encircled' the
village, cutting oft the last communications
with the German army In the rear.
On the same morning I approached Com
blea from the west, atartlng from Marl
court, the Junction point from which the
French and English offensive wns launched
July 1, and traversing each successive step
In the advance mndo In the Intervening
three months toward the attainment of this
first great objective. When we arrived
within less than a mile and a quarter of
Combles the town Itself was then under
going tho final bombardment and assault.
Although Combles was a mere village of
1500 Inhabitants, the Germans had so forti
fied every house, especially the cellars,
where machine guns were Installed, that
the Allies were forced to employ siege
mothods. They completely encircled tho
town with their heavy artillery, which
gradually closed In with every advance of
the Infantry lines.
GREATEST BOMBARDMENT OF ALTj
From the viewpoint of the enormous
quantity of artillery massed against It, and
also from the Incalculable number of shells
rained Into It, Combles can easily boast of
having undergone the most terrific siege
In tho history of the world.
It was only on reaching the most ad
vanced artillery lines before Combles that
one could grasp mathematically the
methodical progress which had rendered the
Allies' new tactics of advancing by heavy
artillery absolutely Irresistible, though tho
dual artillery lines before Combles con
s;sted of comparatively light batteries.
These had been rushed forward during the
night over ground rendered Impassable by
shell holes to everything but foot soldiers.
But while troops were tugging guns
across this ground a veritable army of
soldiers had sunk a tortuous, winding road
way several feet below tho surface of the
ground, paving It with bricks from nearby
houses wrecked by artillery fire. Over
this, when we arrived early the next morn
ing, munition caissons, screened from the
enemy's observation by the depth of the
roadway, drawn by four, six and even
eight horses, were dashing along every
moment with an Incredible number of shells
Berlin Denies Enlisting Belgians
BERLIN, Sept. 29. The semiofficial
Korddeutsche Allgemelne Zeltung has
printed a- dental of reports that Germany
has enlisted foreigners, notably Belgians,
for military service. During tho war Ger
many has maintained the principle of de
taining the nationals of hostile belliger
ents, the newspaper declares, but not of en
listing them In the army.
Collingswood Buys Library Site
COLLINGSWOOD. X. J., Sept. 29. It
has been announced that settlement has
been made by the library commission for
the site of the new library which has been
made possible by the gut of 116,000 from
the Carnegie Library Foundation. Work
has been started on plans for the building.
Dream Restores Lost Speech
LONDON, Sept. 29. Dreaming he was
hit by a German shell while he waa en
tangled In barbed wire and wounded, a
British soldier at Hove Hospital regained
the. power of speech, which he had lost by
being burled by the explosion of a shell,
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only cleanses but actually helps the
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The soothing, healing properties
of Resinol enable it to protect the
skin and scalp from annoying erup
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and the hair rich and lustrous. Tills,
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cleansing cannot be expected to do.
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necessary to feed these advanced lines of
artillery, which could be reached In no other
way.
Back of these advanced lines, fed by
galloping careening caissons, were thousands
more soldiers, methodically transforming
what had been on the preceding day caisson
roads Into highways capable of sustaining
huge automobile convoys bringing Op
heavier munitions for heavier artillery that
had supplanted the lighter guns now fur
ther advanced during the night. Further
behind these automobile-fed artillery lines
was still a third army of workmen, steadily
constructing railways, which wero bringing
up artillery so gigantic that not only It,
but Its shells can bo transported only on
specially constructed railways. These huge
pieces were supplanting these morcr trans
portable nutomoblle-fed pieces already
rushed forward.
If Combles fell before a methodical, heavy
artillery advance nnd encirclement, It fell
equally before tho methodical construction
of roadways, from the dirt and brick
bedded wagon roads to the full-gauged
rock-ballasted steel railways. This method
marks the Allied advance on the entire
thirty-mile Somme front.
Reaching Maurepas, which Is but a mite
and a quarter from Combles, we had a vivid
Impression of the actual Mate of affairs In
Combles, which was then undergoing the
same bombardment that preceded tho cap
turo of Maurepas. Maurepas, Instead of
being simply leveled to the ground by Allied
artillery like other Somme villages during
the first few weeks of the offensive, had been
literally driven Into the ground by ter
rific shell pounding. The village had al
most disappeared from the surface of the
earth, leaving only the naked alto, pock
marked by shells like the surrounding open
country.
GERMANS DIG IN DEEP
An officer explained that thta was the
result of the Allies' new artillery methods,
whereby shells are driven na deep as pos
Blblo Into the ground before exploding for
the purpose of ousting the Germans, who
now dig In from fifty to seventy feet.
Combles being several miles In advance
of the French line of observation sausage
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balloons, the final observation resulting In
the capture of the village wan entrusted to
aeroplanes. In great numbers they circled
above the village at a great height like a
flock of huge vultuves, waiting only the
certainty that lire waa extinct before
swooping d.own and seizing their prey.
Yet so strongly were the Germans forti
fied In Combles and so completely were
they equipped with nrtlllery that almost
at the last moment preceding the passage
of the village Into Allied hands when an
aeroplane swooped down within range, I
counted within less than a mlnuto the
bursting of several shrapnel shells about
one plane. The aviator, evidently convinced
that tho village was still uncaptured, re
joined comrades at higher altitudes outside
tho range.
During our steady progress afoot guns a
hundred yards opart were firing o fiercely
and so close to us that they drowned out
tho general roar of artillery and destroyed
any possible Impression of the gigantic
struggle as a whole. It was only after
reaching the advanced artillery lines, where
we saw a well-placed shell explode a muni
tion depot, and upon our return to the
rear that we were able to get nn Impres
sion, at least In part, of the magnltudo of
tho struggle.
IME. EMMY DESTINN HELD
BV AUSTUIANAUTHOniTIES
Singer Detained In Prague, Whero Sho
Wont to Be With Flnnco
NEW YOnK, Sept. 29. Emmy Destlnn
will not return this season to sing ngnln
tho roles In which sho has endeared herself
as a member of the Metropolitan Opera
Company. It was learned yesterday on
good authority that she Is being detained
by the Teutonic military authorities, She
was at Castle Plass, her recently acquired
country place, at Neuhaus, Bohemia, near
Prague, the last time there was any direct
communication from her. She went to
Prague at the close of last season to be
with Dlnh Ollly, the Algerian opera singer,
to whom she la reported to be engaged to
bo married. He Is Interned for the period
of the war In Austria because he Is n
French subject. In spite of the warning of
friends that It woutd be difficult to return,
Mmo. Destlnn went to Bohemia In order to
be with him.
The most recent communication from her
came Indirectly through the American Em
bassy at Vienna, to' which she applied for
aaslsUnee In leaving the country. 01 ths
State Department at Waahlnglon. She was
unable to obtain a paasport because she Is
t vt an American citizen, although She
has taken out her first papers In this coun-I
iry.
Charles I Wagner, who Is Jinn. Des
tlnn's representative In America for her
concert engagements, said yesterday he' has
been unable to get Into direct communlca.
tlon with her for weeks owing to the diffi
culties Interposed by the ttritlah .censors.
At Mr. Wagner's office It was learned that
Mme. Destlnn's concert accompanist, Homer
Samuels, who went to Stockholm In order
to meet her, Is returning without her, He
cabled from Stockholm that ho was sailing
yesterday for New York.
Mme. Destlnn had been engaged to sing
Alda at an open-air performance of that
opera In Ban Francisco on Saturday, and
arrangements were made with Mme. Jo
hanna Qadskl to take her place when It
was learned that she could not appear. She
was also listed aa the bright particular
atar of the Ellla Opera Company, of which
Charlea A, Ellis, of Boston, fs the manager,
and Slgnor Cnmpanlnl, of the Chicago Op
era Company, Is director and conductor,
for a tour beginning October 17 at Toledo,
O., nnd continuing until the opening of the
gular opera season. MTt
menta he has made to
Destlnn.
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purposes to confiscate an wi;""
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and reduce tho limit Tt !?
pmiiiinn in iiiii rirnat -m
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gambling device, In the ahsne nfMT?'
rhino t ., .li.i..,t'Mlhl
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